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The U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.

In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. attorney’s office at the Justice Department asked them “to reformat/reimage two computers because the user visited the drudgereport.com site.”

Harvey said that if employees had a “work-related reason to visit the site,” access could be provided off the government network.

Asked why the conservative-leaning news aggregator and President Barack Obama critic was flagged by Internet security officials, Tracy Schmaler, a Justice Department spokeswoman, said it was because “a malicious code was found contained in a Web ad on Drudge.”

Schmaler also said the request to stay off Drudge wasn’t politically motivated and said it was sent only to the office in Massachusetts. She also said other popular sites were later found to have potential viruses, including ESPN.com.

I'm afraid I have to agree with the US Attorney's office. I went on Drudge about a month ago and was infected by a virus. The tech department at my company flagged my computer and I had to have the hard drive replaced. I've been affected with viruses more than once from Drudge, and I think he should try and keep his site cleaned up. I still visit it every day though.

Yes, yes, stay off Drudge....wouldn't want to get any nasty viruses! And we can be assured that there are absolutely no malicious nasties on CBS.com, ABC.com, or my alltime favorite MSNBC.com. Yes, having some government downtime would be a truly horrible event, wouldn't it.....but I'm sure it could be fixed with another trillion or so stimulus dollars.

For thoseof you saying you were infected with a virus from Drudge - you are full of it. If virus were running rampant on the site numerous peoples computers would have been infected and we would have know about this long ago. THis is politically motivated pure and simple. The Obama adminsitration needs to get over the "the One" complex.

And also avoid telling the CIA if you have any info on Al Qaeda terrorists! Remember, in the Obama administration, we only consider Conservatives as being real enemies! Later today, we will have a fashion show by Michelle Obama in the main lobby! Come by and watch her!! She's hot! Ok thats all for today! You can go back to destroying America! Love, the US attny office! :)

Look, I love Drudge, it's my number one go-to site. But the fact remains that something on his site is getting through the security of my workplace computer. I'm not the only one....other people in my office have also had this occur.

What an absolute joke!!!! The liberals running this country are nothing but fascists!! Keeping the truth from their sheeple so they can maintain power over their weak lives. I can hear them now...."ok, yes sir...I will not go to Drudge....I will not go to Drudge.....I will not go to Drudge.....waiting for your next commandment, Obamessiah". What a bunch of cry baby liberals!!

Liberalism is a mental disease. A weak mental disease, to be sure; but a form of mental illness nonetheless. When liberalsim begins to censor free speech......that crosses the line into hate policy. Tsk-tsk-tsk!

I work in IT and of course it was politically motivated. Drudge is one of the safer sites on the planet. If they reformated the system, it sounds like they either have limited or non existant security measures in place. No this smells of a policially motivated statement. Someone probably didn't like something they read on Drudge and is probably abusing their power.